Record ID: YORYM-D7646A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy halfpenny trade token of Post-Medieval date, AD 1688. The token was issued by Timothy Browne, cordwainer (shoe maker) in Beverley.
Obverse: TIMOTHEY BROWNE around head of a goat left (part of the cordwainer arms).
Reverse: OF BEVERLEY around HIS//HALF//PENY.
The token is 18.2mm in diameter and weighs 1.1g.
A similar example is illustrated in Thompson and Dickinson, pl.17, no.5800.
Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1673 at a time when there was little low denomination coinage being issued by the crown. As a result traders and business proprietors beg…
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 4th December 2018Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-68CAA6
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval copper alloy trade token farthing issued by the Portreiff for the borough of Chard, Somerset, and dating to AD 1669. Williamson (1891), Somerset no. 82. The token has been pierced and one side is now folded.
Pierced with a circular hole form the obverse, near the edge at 6 o'clock on the obverse and 3 o'clock on the reverse.
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Saturday 15th September 2018Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-73F55D
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn octagonal Lincoln trade token dating from AD 1669. The obverse has five lines of italic script, too worn to read apart from the date. The reverse has a shield with a cross on it with a fleur-de-lys in the centre, which is the city Arms of Lincoln. See Williamson (1889) Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century, number 138.
138. (octagonal)
Obverse: Lincoln / Citty . Halfe / Peny . changd , by / the , Maior / 1669 (in five lines).
Reverse: Arms of Lincoln; on a cross, a fleur-de-lis
Compare also LIN-B025E2, LIN-EEB632, NLM-AA43C1, LEIC-6BEDB7 and NLM-7D5514.
The tok…
Created on: Friday 6th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 18th April 2018Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-1B3F03
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval trade token of James Beale, Mercer of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. Williamson No. 105. Dickenson No. 105.
Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1672 at a time when there was little low denomination coinage being issued by the crown. As a result traders and business proprietors began issuing tokens as an alternate coinage with equivalent denominations of a farthing, half penny or penny. Such trade tokens rarely travel far from their place of issue and provide an insight to the trade of the time. In 1672 regal copper coinage was introduced and the trade tokens were th…
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2018Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-372F0A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval trade token of Ezekell Partridg of Stourbridge, Worcestershire. Williamson Nos. 104-7. Dickenson Nos. 104-7.
Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1672 at a time when there was little low denomination coinage being issued by the crown. As a result traders and business proprietors began issuing tokens as an alternate coinage with equivalent denominations of a farthing, half penny or penny. Such trade tokens rarely travel far from their place of issue and provide an insight to the trade of the time. In 1672 regal copper coinage was introduced and the trade tokens we…
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2017
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2017Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-1E4F9B
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete English Post-Medieval copper-alloy farthing trade token, issued by Corporation of Newbury, dating to AD 1657. Williamson (1889:28, no.51). Williamson (1889:28) per com Mr Walter Money writes "The brass farthings issued by the Newbury Corporation in 1657 were very numerous, as the municipal body, as trustees of a great number of charities, with a considerable rental, and no end of small doles, must have required a good deal of this necessary small change. All the farthings stamped with the sign of the Castle (the borough arms) on one side, and B.N. on the other, were officia…
Created on: Saturday 14th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2017Spatial data recorded.